Scientific prayer makes God a celestial lab rat, leading to bad science and worse religion.

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• Michael Shermer:

  One, I am skeptical of the effectiveness of nutritional supplements.

• Michael Shermer:

  Human history is highly nonlinear and unpredictable.

• Michael Shermer:

  But there is only one surefire method of proper pattern recognition, and that is science.

• Michael Shermer:

  Anecdotal thinking comes naturally; science requires training.

• Michael Shermer:

  No single discovery from any of these fields denotes proof of evolution, but together they reveal t

• Michael Shermer:

  We know evolution happened because innumerable bits of data from myriad fields of science conjoin t

• Michael Shermer:

  When alien abductees recount to me their stories, I do not deny that they had a real experience.

• Michael Shermer:

  We should be exploring consciousness at the neural level and higher, where the arrow of causal anal

• Michael Shermer:

  For solving a surprisingly large and varied number of problems, crowds are smarter than individuals

• Michael Shermer:

  The reason is that in a group, individual errors on either side of the true figure cancel each othe